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Localization (commonly abbreviated as l10n) is a term used to describe the effort to make WordPress (and other such projects) available in languages other than English, for people from different locales, who use different dialects and local preferences.

I need to localize some WP plug-ins and like to know if there was a method to make a rtl.css for plug-ins like the way WP handles RTL theme by reading rtl.css.
What should I do to prevent my changes ...

I am developing a theme that implements multiple languages. I have a few strings that will have to be translated in the theme itself. I would like to use a .po and .mo file. For some reason, when I ...

I'm developing a new theme and plugins for it. Unfortunately, the comment reply link is broken. Instead of moving the comment reply textarea, the page is reloaded by adding e.g. ?replytocom=2#respond ...

I want to translate some website to Spanish, and the default translation in 'Settings' doesn't translate everything.
I notice in the code, that where the translation doesn't work there are functions ...

I've just recently learned about .po and .mo files in WordPress Themes. My question is, are these files supposed to be used to translate page and post content or just the WordPress backend along with ...

I'm changing the locale using the locale filter. I've tried various methods; creating a plugin and hooking into filter, declaring locale filter hook in the functions.php file, and even as simply as ...

I need to extract all translatable data from wordpress to PO files in order to send it to a translation agency. Of course, I also need a mechanism for putting the translated text back, and extracting ...

I've already checked http://i18n.svn.wordpress.org/, but something seems off. I need official file checksums.
I took /ar (Arabic) as an example, and compared all the files in the repository against ...

There are some plugins with so many translations (e.g. Slim Jetpack has 45 -- 10 MB!) that the .po and .mo files take more space than the plugin itself. And I know I will never use these translations, ...

I am trying to change wordpress to Spanish. Including the admin.
I went to my wp-config and defined the value i.e. define ('WPLANG', ‘es_MX’);
I went to the settings -> general and set the language ...

I'm aware of the various functions for localising elements of themes and plugins - __(), x() and the textdomain concept but how does one go about providing localised versions of actual post and page ...

I want to localize my website with .mo files. Now, while it's pretty easy to scan existing php files and add the relative translation, it's not clear to me how to localize the elements in the db. I ...

I have been reading very carefully and more than once the documentation, yet I don't understand how to provide a plugin with multiple languages.
In the example there is an array, such as:
$strings = ...

I have a WP Network of two sites to use the Multilingual Press plugin ("Site-A" and "Site-B"). They both have a Custom Post Type, say "CPT-A", which I registered manually in functions.php.
How do I ...

I've seen different ways of doing making a text with a hyperlink translatable. However, I have been unable to find a single best practice.
So, some of the solutions I found:
// METHOD 1
sprintf( __( ...

Without going into a lot of details, I have a multiple custom plugins within a multisite that share files outside of its original plugin folders. These plugins all work in conjunction with each other ...